General practitioners' perceptions about their role in current and future heart failure care: an exploratory qualitative study

• Main Authors: Miek Smeets (Author), Sofia Zervas (Author), Hanne Leben (Author), Mieke Vermandere (Author), Stefan Janssens (Author), Wilfried Mullens (Author), Bert Aertgeerts (Author), Bert Vaes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A comprehensive disease management programme (DMP) with a central role for general practitioners (GPs) is needed to improve heart failure (HF) care. However, previous research has shown that GPs have mixed experiences with multidisciplinary HF care. Therefore, in this study, we e...